Bikhchandani, Sushil; Sharma, Sunil - In: IMF Staff Papers 47 (2001) 3, pp. 1-1
This paper provides an overview of the recent theoretical and empirical research on herd behavior in financial markets. It looks at what precisely is meant by herding, the causes of herd behavior, the success of existing studies in identifying the phenomenon, and the effect that herding has on...
